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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

TWENTY thousand through passengers
arrived in California from the East dur
ing the month of November.
The general Offices of the Lake Erie
and Western railway have been removed
from Bloomington, ILL.,, to Indianapolis,
Ind.
NATURAL Gas has been discovered at
Nebraska City, at depth of 400 feet.
The flow indicates the presence of gas
in paying quantities.
THERE were 1875 deaths in Chicago
annual death rate was lower than that of
any other large city in the country, being
1897 to the 1000.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Wednesday, the city
election was held on the issue of swet or
dry" and the anti Prohibitionists won,
giving them control of the city govern
ment.
committee appointed by the Ameri-
can Pathological society to consider the
adaptability of the recently invented un-
iversal language, called 'Volapuk," has
reported adversely upon it.
A FUND of $4,000 has been raised in
Cass county, Dakota, of which Fargo ie
the county seat, when WIN usoo III en-
forcing the recently adopted prohibitory
law.
JOHN OWEN SNYDER, s'the man who
couldn't stop walking" and who appear
ed in many of the dime museums, died
Sunday at his home in Mill Grove, Ind.
AT Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday, strike of
yardmen Of all the railroads excepting
the "Nyano," paralyzed the freight bust
ness. The men want more wages.
ISABELLA COUNTY, Mich, gave 600 ma
jority for local option in the recent cleo
ton in the Wolverine state. Grand
Traverse county gives about 500, Benzie,
800, and Antrim county, 400 majority.
ELIZA R. Snow, poetess and prophecies
of the Mormons and plural wife of Joe
Smith, died Monday at Salt Lake City,
Utah, aged "a years. She was one of the
central figures in the church.
WHAT is known as the s'black diph-
theria"-the worst form of the disease
ing counties in Arkansas, and is fear
fully fatal. Outside medical help has
been called in.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, tuesday, nomI-
mated in the senate Lucius @. @. Lamar,
of Mississippi, for justice of the supreme
court; VIM. f. Villas, of Wisconsin, for
secretary of the interior, and Hon. Don
M. Dickinson, of Michigan, for postmas-
ter general.
The stock of wheat in sight in this
country at the present time amounts to
40,26O,974 bushels, of corn to 5,772, 131
bushels, and of oats to 6,451,751 bushels.
A year ago the stock of wheat was 3d.
1881 bushels, of corn II ,739,884 bush
els, and of oats 5,26O,S98 bushels.
WHILE drilling an artesian well six miles
east of San Antonio, Tex, petroleum was
struck at depth of 800 feet. The oil
burns freely and also possesses fnel ubri-
eating qualities. Several barrels have
been drawn, and the indications point to
a large deposit. The discovery causes ex-
cltement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
FOREIGN.

SENIOR MARTos hes been reelected pres
ldent of the Spanish Deputies.
M. GAvARD, of Geneva, a radical Re-
publican, has been elected President of
Switzerland.
HE Northampton factories have com
inenced locking out fifteen thousand
wOrkmen.
The commercial treaty between Ger
many, and Austria has been renewed for
a period Of six months.
PRINCE BISMARCK intends to resign in
January the post of landrath of Naugard,
which he has held since 1841.
FIRE in Shotow, China, about month
ago, destroyed 500 houses, causing loss
of about 100000.
Two earthqu ake shocks occurred in
Bisignana, a city of Southern Italy.
Twenty persons were killed, large num-
Der injured and 1000 were rendered
homeless.
The st. Petersburg papers approve the
election of M. Sadi-Carnot as President
of France. The Novoe Vremya says the
solution OF the crisis was fortunate in
every way.
AIN AUSTRIAN and Hungarian subjects
ehi pioyeo ~ the Russian provinces Dor
derlnR on Gan~ia and Rukoyina have
been ordered to Quit Russi an TERRITORY
before January ID.
EMPEROR Francis Joseph will preside
at a military council which to be held at
the palace for the purpose of consider
ing what steps are necessary in view OF
the collection of Russian troops on the
frontier.
The Moscow Gazette says the future
policy of France will decide whether Cor
May will be compelled to watch one or
both her frontiers. The paper declares
that Russia must slways have strong
fleet in the Pacific Ocean.
The Journal de s. Petersburg congrat-
ulates France upon the election of M.
Sadi- Carnot as president, but condemns
the mob orators for using Russia's name
for political purposes.
IT is expected that M. Goblet will be
prime minister in the new French cabi-
net, and that M. Florens will retain the
portfolio of minister of foreign affairs.
a DISPATCH from Rome reports the de-
sGruction of Bisignano, in the italian
province of Calabria, by an earthquake
-Four thousand persons are render ed home
less and many are missing. Other towns
in the province also suffered.
M. SAD1- CARNoT, the new president Of
France, is fine looking man of nearly
so, scholar, writer of some fame, Oh
the economic sciences, wealthy, coEserva-
tive rather than radical, not churchman,
but has Catholic wife.
The radical journals energetically op-
pose M. Ferry sc a candidate for the
Presidency, and accuse him of bribery
and corruption in the administration Of
affairs in Tunis and Tonquin.
A DISPATCH to the Boer5en Courier from
st. Petersburg says the police surprised a
nihilist rendezvous and facilities for tie
manufacture of dynamite in the Wassilh,
Ostron, and Peski quarters. In one case
there was desperate encounter, in which
there was serious bloodshed.
The ministry asked the czar whether,
in view of the political situation, it will
be desirable to hold an educational con-
gress in 1888 or postpone it to 1890.
The czar replied that it could be held
next year, as the political outlook was
satisfactory, and there was no fear of
further complications.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
NEEDS OF THE NAVY.
Synopsis of Secretary Whitney's An
nual Report.
No More Monitors Should Be Built-Or-
ganizatiOn Of q Coast Defense
Last of the Old Ships Repairs
Under the Old Roach
Regime.

Secretary Whitney's report says that
with the exception of two cases. the de.
partment has practically abandoned the
Idea OF the unprotected torpedo boat.
but he recommends the continuation of
experiments in submarine boats. Pro-
posals for the construction of these boats
will be received at the navy department.
on March 1. Mr.. Whitney is opposed to
any further appropriation of money for
work on the singieturreted monitors.
He says: "a frst-class modern ironcla d
could safely anchor, surrounded by fleet
of these monitors, without any danger
of injury to herself, and any one of her
guns could send projectile through the
monitor from stem to stern If every
dollar is made to count upon something
of real value, the waste will stop, and not
before" He recommends that due atten-
ton be given to the subject of "pnue-
matte guns.
On the naval reserve and coast defense
he says: 1.-THE department. has informed
itself fully of the different systems of
organization for coast defense and naval
reserves at present in force in foreign
countries, and is prepared 80 formulate a
general plan for a similar organization
to meet the requirem ents of our own in
situations. 1T should resemble in organi-
cation that Of the militia or national
guard, rest upon the foundation of local
interest, contemplate the employment
and rapid mobilization of steamers en-
rolled on an auxiliary navy list, and be
calculated to produce the best results up
on comparatively small national expen-
diture. l ask for this question the earn
est consideration OF congress-"
The secretary recommends the construc-
tod of five new warships, as follows: Two
armor-clad vessels, to cost, exclusive of
armament not more than $6,OOO,OOO; one
to be built by contract and one in the
navy yards, and three more fast cruisers,
of the highest type. He says that in six
years only four of the present cruising
ships will remain serviceable. In other
words, the old navy will have disappeared.
Secretary Whitney is not at all diffident
about showing up the rottenness of the
Roach regime in the days gone By. He
describes the enormous expense of the
so-called repairs to the various old vessels,
many ofswhich scost much more for
repairs than for original construction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

One of those curious cranks who be-
queath property for the extinction Of the
British national debt,-as if one should
with form and ceremony throw bucket
of water into the ocean,-has died, and
strange to say, in Ireland. His name
and estate were Matthew O'ReiIly Dease
of st. James square, London, and Dee
farm, county Louth, formerly M. P. He
left certain sums as marks of his esteem
TO his solicitors and land agent, and 9100
to the archbishop of Armagh for masses
for the repose of his soul, and the residue
of all he possessed to the purpose men
toned above, He was well-to-do man,
and might have helped home rule along
considerably.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

Both North Carolina and Texas show
disposition to ignore the recent deci-
sion of the United States supreme court
making it unconstitutional for q state
to tax drummers. Both have since then
caused commercial travellers to be arrest
ed for not taking out licenses. In the
former state drummer has just eeen re-
leased from jail on writ of habeas cor
pus by the United States district court,
and the state has appealed from the de-
cision. There is nothing on which to base
the appeal. The full bench decision OF the
Tennessee drummer's tax case was clear
and decisive. 1t may have been in-judgel
but it settled the matter all the same.
1t is rather late day to be practicing
notification.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Congregational Church at Dewitt
Iowa, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night.
By the burning of livery stable al
Los Angeles, CAL, on Saturday, ninety
horses were burned.
KAYToN, NANoER q Co., cloak manufac
turers. OF New York, have made an as
signment. Their liabilities are placed al
100000.
News comes from Norfolk, Va, of the
stranding of the British steamer Kim
berly off Currituck light.
By premature explosion of dynamite
on the Lehigh Valley road on Tuesday
ore man was instantly killed and five
others seriously, injured.
AT Point Edward, Ontario, Tuesday
about $4,000 tons of coal we're consumed
by fire on the Grand Trunk Road.
By the explosion of barrel of oil
Tuesday as Pittsburg, followed by fire
Bernard Burns roasted to crisp.
BowERMAN Bros stable at Lexington,
KY, was burned by incendiaries Wednes-
day night, and five valuable horses were
destroyed, The loss will reach $4,000.
PLEURA-pNEUMoNIA is said to have be-
come epidemic among the cattle in Berks
County, Pennsylvania, and ia Jefferson
and Penn townships number of cattle
have died.
MATTHEW BIRD, a boy IL years old, who
resided at Philadelphia, died recently
from the effects of cigarette smoking
He began the peruicious habit only ten
months ago.
A HEAVY hosting machine at the Phila-
delphia 81 Reading railroad cOmpany's
coal wharves at Port Washington fell
Tuesday afternoon, killing two men and
seriously injuring two others.
AT the Hubbard rolling mill at Youngs-
town Ohio, eight boilers exploded early
Monday morning, scalding the fireman
and wrecking the building.
The failure of the mercantile firm of
J. G. Gale & Co., Toronto, is announced;
liabilities, S150,000; assets, 100000.
Six buildings on Marsh avenue, Kings
ley, Kan, two of which constituted the
Carlin house, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE town of Eminence, Kentucky, was
partially destroyed by fire on Friday.
Flames in business block at Springfield d,
Massachusetts,, caused loss of 100000
Six buildings were burned at Kinsley,
Kansas.
AT Mound City, southern Illinois, Mon
day, a fire destroyed twenty five buildings,
including two hotels and State Senator
Dan Hogan's residences.
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, young machinist
who had separated from his wife, went
to the residence of his mother-in-iaw, at
Milwauk e, Wis, Wednesday, and hang
ed himself inside the storm door. He
had been dead nearly an hour before he
was discovered.
TIE twelfth incendiary ire in the past
three months occurred Friday night at
Paxton. ILL.,, Solomon MERGERS barn, three
horses and mule were burned. The cit
liens are thoroughly alarmed at the fire.
quency of these incendiary fires. There
is no clue to the fire-bUgs.
By the spreading of the rails on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near indie
pendence, Ohio, locomotive and ten
freight cars were thrown down an en-
bankment The engineer, George S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

THE Keely Motor stakeholder are gilt
tering examples of faith. If the moter
cannot remove mountains, their faith
ought to. The annual effort to induce
Mr.. Keely to divulge his secret to some
person named by the courts is now I'M
der full head. No one presumes to doubt
that he has secret, and it really seems a
bit of idle curiosity on the part of the
stockholders to know the nature Of the
inventors secret. It is a source of I'M
speakable annoyance to Mr.. Keely to be
com PEELED once year to check his medi-
tations in order to explain why he is not
yet ready to open his bosom to the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

6THE annual report of the secretary of
the treasury shows that the receipts of
the government for the last fiscal year
were 1871, 400, PIT, and the expenditures
1915, 1856, 428. There was an increase in
the receipts of S34, 963.550 over those of
the preceding year, and the expendit-
ures were increased by 25,449,041. The
revenues for the present year, are estimat-
ed at 1888, 100000 and the expenditures
at $3I6, 817,795. The secretary advises
a reduction of the customs duties on the
lines suggested in the presidents mes
sage.
smith Thmith,'' he asked, as he drew
up his collar and adjusted his single eye
glass, 'do you believe in the Darwinian
theory; believe that man is dethended
from the monkey"
"No," she replied, surveying him from
head to foot, II believe the very reverse"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

LORD Harrington in his address to his
constituents states that local self-govern-
ment is full of danger, and is at variance
with the liberal creed. He also announ-
ces that he Goes not favor measure to
abolish the plurality votes of one in
dividuai. For years before the present
split in the liberal party, Lord Harting-
ton had shown a desire to become tory.
He seems now to have worked out his
manifest destiny. His advocacy of the
plurality vote system alone shows his
tory propensities. Many man owning
land in dozen or Is districts habitually
which the liberals acknowledge. The
lateral cleavage of the party is complete.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
FROM TENNYSON.
The British Poet Laureate Writes Letter to
Walt Whitman

lit DIltlSu Oob LAUREATE NTlbtS I-tbleT u
Walt Whitman
Lord Tennyson has written letter to
Walt whitman in which he says: II
thank you for your kind thought OF me.
value your photograph and much wish /
could see, not only the sun picture, but
also the living original. May you still
live and flourish for many years. The
coming year should give new life to every
American who has breathed the life of
that soul, which inspired the great found
ers CO the American constitution, whose
work you are to celebrate. Truly, the
mother country, bordering thus, may feel
that, how muchsoever the daughter owes
her, she, the mother, has nevertheless
something to learn from the daughter.
Especially would note tbs care taken to
guard the noble constitution from rash
and unTise Innovations
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

The negro voter has got an entering
wedge in some of the parishes in Louis
lana, where the McEnery or state-house
leaders are admitting the blacks to the
primaries. This is unprecedented in the
from under those northern papers which
have been recently saying that the Louis
lana canvass was reactionary on the race
question. Things are bad enough, but
they are not going backward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

Little Josef Holman, who Is loudly
heralded as the young Mozart" of the
day, has arrived in New York. Josef, ac-
cOrding to description, is like Wolfgang
Amadeus in his precoclty OF piano play
ing, but his compositions hardly match
those of his predecessor of the same age.
He comes of musical family, his moth
eff having been Polish opera singer, and
his father, Casimir Holman (who travels
with HIM, a conductor, and of German
family, though born in Carcow. Josef
first disclosed his exceptional abilities
when four years of age. He was pro-
nounced marvel by Rubinstein when he
was seven years old; he is now but ten,
and made his debut IN the summer of
1856 at Berlin, when .he won the greatest
admiration by improvisation on themes
given him by MosZkowski. He played
with orchestra under Won Bulow's direc-
ton, giving Beethovea's first concerto
without notes. Since then he has made
sensation all over Europe. The thing
he most objects to in his public life is
the way the English women would insist
on kissing him. He has ideas of his own
on many things. At Copenhagen he &C
knowledged applause by bowling first to
the audience and then to the queen of
Denmark, and when he was told he should
bow first to the queen, be replied, "Why
is that? The audience are many, the
queen Is but one" He is said TO be
happy and healthful boy, fond of toys,
but especially of his bicycle. New
York Times reporter describes him hay
ing face round and full as an infants,
fresh color, bright, dark eyes, DARK hair
close cut, nose a little retrousse, figure
straight and muscular, a firm, strong
hand, and as eall in all, parsonage most
piquant and pleasing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
4 Triple Alliance.

Unhappily for the wretehed victim Of their as
are fatal allies. When of these foes attack
the system, the other two speedily follow in its
wake and successfully make their onslaught.
Successfully. but not successfully if Hostetter's
Stomach BitterS be used to repel the onset. The
Bitters easily extirpates those monsters as st.
George is depicted in the act of doing to the
dragon in the steel yignette upon the glass bottles
which contain the medicine. Their flight Ike
their advance, is nearly simultaneous Their
mutuaiity destroyed, they precipitately retreat.
leaving health master Of the position and
strongly entrenched by the Bitters- This grand
fortifier IS also a reliable bulwark against the
insdiouS assaults of malarial disease, and stops
the approach of rheumatism. lie, moreover. re
heves nervous complaints. and imparts vigor to
he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
Spanish Duties on Imports.

The Spanish Conservatives demand an
increase of % per cent. in the duties on
foreign cereals, -four. rice, cattle. Senor
Sagasta has determined to respect the
commercial treaties made with fourteen
different countries lasting until 1892.
But he will tax agricultural products
from America and other countries with
which Spain has no commercial treaties,
and will also levy duties on alcohol and
petroleum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

The worlds supply of red cedar used in
the manufacture of lead-pencils is de-
rived from the swamps of Cedar Key, in
Florida. The product of the mills there
is shipped not only to northern but to
European factories. The industry gives
employment to hundreds of operatives.
The wood also yields valuable oil, and
the saw-dust is distilled and the oil ex
tracted. Every ounce finds ready sale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15
THE DEFEAT OF BONGA.
An African Who Has Given the White Race No
End of Trouble.

End OF Trouble.
The story of Bonga, the famous rebel
chief VINO for over forty years has defied
the Portuguese In their East African do
mln1ons, was briefly told yesterday, says
the New York Sun. The latest news
papers received from Europe contains
this dispatch from Lisbon, which indi-
Gates the close of his remarkable career.
The Portuguese government has re-
ceived an official telegram from Mozam-
blque announcing that Bonga, the famous
pirate of the Zambesi, has been COM
pletely defeated by the Portuguese troops;
and that his thirty six villages, all of them
strongly defended by pallis AIDES, have
been destroyed.
This man, of whom Livingstone wrote
in his first book of explorations, has re-
sisted the advance of the white race in
Africa longer and more successfully than
any other native chief. He has been the
avowed enemy of the Portuguese since
1910, and, though several years have
sometimes elapsed without hostilities, it
has only been because the Portuguese
meanwhile have let Bonga severely alone.
Many renegade Portuguese, half-breeds,
and most of the robbers and disorderly
characters of the Portuguese territories
nOck6d TO bODga5 SOaHQdru, anu his
authority was supreme from the Zambesi,
within twenty five miles of the import
ant Portuguese settlement at Tete, $50
milea southwest TO the kingdom of the
Mantabelle. One of Bonga's sons-in-law
was a nearly full blooded Portuguese, and
a number of these outlawed Europeans
have struggled ammunition from Made-
gascar, and in other ways contributed to
Bonga's remarkable success.
Livingstone, fearing treachery, did not
visit BeDga's stronghold on the Zambesi,
but one Or two white travellers have been
Hospitality entertained there. Some years
ago the Portuguese attempted to knock
the defenses of this place TO pieces with
cannon, but Bonga's soldiers made havoc
among the gunners, and compelled the
whites to raise the siege before the very
strong stockade had been destroyed.
The campaign in which Bonga has
been hopelessly defeated is the fourth
serious attempt that the Portuguese have
made to subjugate him. Their long de-
ferred triumph will give them complete
mastery over the lower Zambesi and its
tribes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

GEORGIA still keeps its lead as the en-
pire state of the south. According to the
Enquirer-Sun the population of Column
bus has increased 1000 during the year;
two new cotton mills have been COM
pleted; the city is lighted by electricity;
the value of real estate has trebled; new
rail aud water transportation facilities
have been furnished; and, finally, there
are good hotels. Atlanta, Macon and
Columbus all premise to be centres of a
dense population in the good time COM
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-15

The men who accomplished the Ha-
waiian revolution will find that running a
government is a different thing from run
ing king into a corner. The first mis-
take of the new Legislature has already
been made. When the Honolulu rifles
rose in revolt, the agent of the notorious
Gibson was in England negotiating a
loan of S200,0O0,OO0. The supreme court
declared the loan illegal, but the Legisla-
ture elected under the new constitution
has reversed this decision and assumed
the debt contracted by the jobbjng min
listers of the king. Schemes for new
loans are now multiplying. A wealthy
shipper wants railroad subsidy loan and
another wants S1,oO0000 raised for col
onization purposes. These funds will be
secured in England, anG England knows
how to defend the commercial rights of
her subjects. These Sandwich island
patriots, who are bent upon running the
new government into debt, may we'll stop
and read the history of foreign bond
holders backed by British bayonets.